Button loop



Sept; 9, 1930. R. J. HODGE 1,775,100

BUTTON LOOP Filed June 28, 1929 FKDBEHT J HEJDGE ATTy Patented Sept. 9,1930 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ROBERT J. HODGE, OF WEST HAVEN,CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERICAN BUCKLE COMPANY, OF WEST HAVEN,CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECT- ICUT BUTTON LOOP Applicationfiled June as,

This invention relates to button loops constructed in two parts, a loopproper and a button retaining member depending therefrom, the devicebeing employed to connect a strap with a button carried by a garment,

or the like, intended to be supported by the strap.

The objects of the invention are to provide a simple means of connectinga button retain- 0 ing member with the loop proper to permit objects,

the independent expansion of both members; and to provide a two-partbutton loop the members of which are relatively fixed against pivotalmovement.

Y The invention consists in the novel constructions, to be hereinafterdescribed or claimed, for carrying out the above stated and such otherobjects as may hereinafter appear.

The character of the invention may be best understood by reference toone illustrative device embodying the invention and illustratedby thefigures in the accompanying drawing in which the Figure 1 is anelevation of a two-part button loop in a normally contracted conditlon;andthe F igure 2 1s a sum- 7 lar elevation, but illustrating the buttonloop in an expanded condition.

The invention is not limited to any specific form of construction andthe details of the device may be varied to produce the novel featureshereinafter claimed, the device as illustr'ated, however,v is a two-partbutton loop of which the loop proper provides a sus pension loop 1, abutton receiving loop or eye 2, anormally contracted throat portion 3,and depending arms 4 and 5 providing attaching means 6 and 7 forengagement with the other member which provides a second normallycontracted throat portion 8 and the button retaining loop 9. The buttonloop proper is preferably formed of a piece of resilient wire a middleportion of which is bent to form the suspension loop 1,, the remainingend portions of the wire depending from the suspension loop 1 to providethe side arms 4 and 5 forming the button receiving loop 2 and thecontracted throat portion 3, thewire extremities then diverging to formthe laterally spaced looped ends 6 and 7 1929. Serial No. 374,399.

formed in a plane perpendicular'to the plane of the button loop. Thebutton retaining member is preferably formed of a piece of resilient'wire the middle portion of which is bent 'to form the retaining loop 9,and the remaining end portions are bent inwardly to form the contractedthroat 8, one of the novel features of novelty of which this inventionconstitutes, the end portions then diverging and the wire extremitiesbeing formed into the elongated loops 10 and 11 lying in the plane ofthe button retaining loop. The manner of connecting the two parts of thedevice forms another of the fea tures of novelty of the invention. Ininterlooping the attaching loops 6 and 7 with the lower bar portions ofthe loops 10 and 11, respectively, the arm 4; is made to snugly engageone side of the upper bar of the loop 10 while the arm 5 is made tosnugly engage the reverse side of the upper bar of the loop 11tomaintain a rigid assembly as regards relative pivotal movement, butpermitting a relative sliding movement in both lateral direct-ions, eachof the loops l0 and 11, in its interlooped engagement with therespective loops 4 and 5, being adapted to normally rest intermediatelyas regards the elongated loops. V

A button being received within the loop 2, the button shank 12, restingin the position illustrated by the Figure 1, may be urged downwardly tooperate and expand the throat portion '3 as illustrated by the Figure 2.It is obvious that the shank 12 may be further urged to likewise operateand expand the throat portion 8 and assume its final position Within theretaining loop 9 behind the two contracted throats,-the resiliency ofthe wire forming each part being relied upon to return the throatportions to their normally contracted condition. The reverse action uponthe release of the shank 12 from behind the contracted throats 8 and 3is, of course, similar to that already explained with regard to theentrance of the shank 12 to the retaining loop 9, and, in both instancesof entrance and release, the movement of the device along its plane may,of course, be substituted for the forced movement of the button, therelative rigidity of the assembled parts against pivotal movement beingadvantageous for this purpose.

I claim:

1. A button loop comprising a suspension member having an open buttonreceiving eye terminating in an expansible contracted throat anddiverging ends, a button retaining member, and looped connectionsprovided by the members and permitting a relative lateral slidingmovement, the connection including stops maintaining the membersrelatively rigid against pivotal movement.

2. A button loop comprising a suspension member having an open buttonreceiving eye terminating in an expansible contracted throat anddivergingends, a button retaining memberhaving an expansible contractedthroat and diverging ends, and looped connections provided by thediverging ends of both members and permitting a relative lateral slidingmovement, the connection including stops maintaining the membersrelatively rigid against pivotal movement. I

3. A button loop comprising a suspension member'havingan open buttonrecelvlng eye terminating in an expansible contracted throat anddiverglngr ends, a button retaining member havingan expansiblecontracted throat and diverging ends, and connecting means provided bythe diverging ends of both members and permitting a relative -lat-.

eral sliding movement, the means including stops rigidly maintaining themembers against relative pivotal movement. Y

I 4. A button loop comprising a suspension member of resilient-wire andhaving anopen button receiving eye terminatingin a normally contractedthroat and diverging'ends looped in a plane perpendicular to that ofthemember, and a button retaining member of resilient Wire and havinganormally contracted throat and diverging ends with elon gated loops inthe plane of the member but at right angles with the other end loops,the end loops of one member being so interlooped with theendloops of theother member that .7 one of the diverging ends of the suspension memberprovides a stop preventing a relas' tive movement of the members .in onepivotal direction and the other diverging end of thesuspensionmemberprovldes a stop preventing a relative movement of the:members'in the opposite pivotal direction, the

stops ma ntaining the members relatively rigid against all pivotalmovement.

.- ROBERT J L THODGE.

